This cake was designed to be the centre piece of a cake display where Amanda had a number of cupcakes in the purple/black/silver colour scheme.
Making a giant cupcake sounded easy and when I found a mould at Kmart I jumped on it and thought it'd be smooth sailing.
My first attempt was a dud. So, so hard to get the cakes baking at the same time considering one was a cone shape and the other was much deeper and wider.
My second attempt where I baked the cone first and then the base also failed. I think the pan was the problem - always blame the tools used :-)
My back up plan worked a treat. I used a pudding dish and a small round pan. I carved the cone from the pudding pan and used the round one as the base. It didn't look much un-iced but I knew I could add detail afterwards.
I would like to try baking one of these using a giant cupcake pan from a cake decorating shop. I believe they are made from much thicker metals and probably compensate for the different shapes a bit better.
So, with cake made I went onto decorating.
I used black fondant for the base and then used a skewer to make it look like a patty pan.
I used butter cream for the top. It didn't have to be perfectly smooth because I was covering a lot of it with stars.
I had pre-made all the stars in 3 shades of purple (some medium, some small) with about half on sticks.
I sprinkled non toxic silver glitter all over the top of the cake to fit in with the 'sparkle' theme.
When I'd decorate the cake with enough stars I used the leftovers around the base and wrote on them with an edible marker "Happy Birthday Amanda" and "30".
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